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"Ay, ay, sir!" returned the fishing-skipper, with hearty bellow "Glad

to help sailors in trouble"

"And that shows you--" blurted Captain Candage, and stopped his say in

the nificant fist

against his ribs

Captain Mayo turned his head once while the tender was hastening toward

the schooner But there were no woht on the yacht's deck

There was an instant's flutter of white from a stateroom port, but he

was not sure whether it was a handkerchief or the end of a aved

curtain He faced about resolutely and did not look behind again Shame,

ing hi upward innocently

while they rowed, but he perceived that they were hiding grins His

hu fashion would be the forecastle jest

Through him these new friends of his had been subjected to insult He

felt that he understood what Polly Candage's silence meant